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Time Team — Season 10, episode 8 watch online

  • TV Series: Time Team
  • Seasons: Season 10
  • Episode 8: «Back to Our Roots - Athelney, Somerset»
  • Air date: February 23, 2003
  • Running time: 60 min

Time Team, season 10 episode 8 «Back to Our Roots - Athelney, Somerset»: air date February 23, 2003. Episode overview, season trailer and the cast of Time Team.

Time Team revisits Athelney Abbey, the hideaway of Alfred the Great, and also the very first site investigated by the team one hundred programs earlier. Ten years of technological advances in the meantime has significantly enhanced their geophysical survey methods and changes in heritage management attitudes have also given them the permission to dig at the site. Slag and magnetic readings suggest that iron and steel was smelted and worked at Athelney, the latter being a good indication of Anglo-Saxon presence. At the abbey site itself Phil and his diggers uncover several burials. Reenactors show Anglo-Saxon dress and weaponry and their Viking counterparts as the experimental part of the program, while Carenza and Tony make – and burn – traditional Saxon cakes. The archaeologists find a number of objects, a Medieval graveyard associated with Athelney abbey, a metalworking complex, and a substantial defensive ditch dug in the Iron Age, but reused in the time of king Alfred. Archaeological or historical period(s): Iron Age, Anglo-Saxon.

Episodes — Season 10

  1. 1 Episode 1 «Garden Secrets - Raunds, Northamptonshire» January 5, 2003
  2. 2 Episode 2 «Mosaics, Mosaics, Mosaics - Dinnington, Somerset» January 12, 2003
  3. 3 Episode 3 «Peak District Practices - Carsington, Derbyshire» January 19, 2003
  4. 4 Episode 4 «The Giant's Grave - Fetlar, Shetland Islands» January 26, 2003
  5. 5 Episode 5 «Joust Dig It - Greenwich, London» February 2, 2003
  6. 6 Episode 6 «Digging Liberty - Merton, South London» February 9, 2003
  7. 7 Episode 7 «Death in a Crescent - Bath, Somerset» February 16, 2003
  8. 8 Episode 8 «Back to Our Roots - Athelney, Somerset» February 23, 2003
  9. 9 Episode 9 «Looking for the White House - Kew Gardens, London» March 2, 2003
  10. 10 Episode 10 «Rescuing the Dead - Leven, Fife» March 9, 2003
  11. 11 Episode 11 «Not a Blot on the Landscape - Castle Howard, Yorkshire» March 16, 2003
  12. 12 Episode 12 «A View to a Kiln - Sedgefield, County Durham» March 23, 2003
  13. 13 Episode 13 «Jailhouse Rocks - Appleby, Cumbria» March 30, 2003